BEAUTY BY MISTAKE.

RosaLee Ward was born in 1990, a shock from which she never recovered. Queer femme / she*her*they*them

[lauragoodall]

[mydarkenedeyes]

Souloner Younger

[mournfulroses]

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vita Sackville-West c. October 1928

[iceepisces]

[6thlovelanguage-deactivated2020]

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[newvision]

— Richard Siken, I had a dream about you

[millimallow]

mitski, i bet on losing dogs (2016) / rafael canogar, the wounded one (el herido) (1969)

[dryadaura]

Yayoi Kusama, Kusama’s Self-Obliteration (1967)

[loveviolent]

[paolo-streito-1264]

[victormalonso]

la lírica del viento | © víctor m. alonso

[lifeinpoetry]

I want you plain. I want you bragging. I want you naked as a tongue without a word. I want you laughing. I want you joy. I want you wonder & wonderful. The hips on every guitar. Copper tambourines scoring your laughter. Don’t ever learn how to stop laughing. Laugh when you shouldn’t. I like that laughing best. I want you miracle. I want you possible & foolish.

— Rachel Eliza Griffiths, from “Paradise,” Seeing the Body

[nubbsgalore]

flamingos flying over tanzania’s lake natron, a salt lake which is home to three quarters of the world’s three million lesser flamingos, as well as toxic multicoloured extremophile cyanobacteria that thrive in water so hypersaline it would strip away human skin. for the flamingos, however, the tough skin and scales on their legs prevents burning, leaving them uniquely free to drink from the near boiling freshwater found from springs and geysers at the lake’s edges.  (x, x, x, x, x)

[desert-nausea]

Georges Bataille, The Impossible

[nosleeptbh]

[thunderstruck9]

Salman Toor (Pakistani, b. 1983), Bar Boy, 2019. Oil on plywood, 48 x 60 in.

[soracities]

Sophocles, Elektra (trans. Anne Carson)